by Jessica Carreras On Saturday, Nov. 22, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan will host their annual dinner at the Hyatt Regency of Dearborn. During the event, ACLU staff will speak about the election [...]

LANSING - Officials from the Eaton County Sheriff's Department and the Delta Township Fire department are contradicting reports about a Nov. 9 protest held at Mt. Hope Church. The protest on Nov. 9 was held [...]

by Rex Wockner City officials in Minsk, Belarus, banned a planned gay demonstration at the Russian Embassy, Gay.ru reported Oct. 27. The group BelQueer hoped to protest the "growing number of cases of violation of [...]

by Rex Wockner A concert by Jamaican reggae singer Capleton was canceled by organizers in Basel, Switzerland, on Nov. 6. The groups Homosexuelle Arbeitsgruppen Basel and Stop Murder Music Bern had opposed the concert "because [...]

by Rex Wockner Some government officials in attendance at the recent annual meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS called for repeal of laws that criminalize gay sex as a pathway to slowing the [...]

by Rex Wockner Hungary's Parliament passed legislation in early November extending hate-crime laws to cover members "of a social group" and making it possible to initiate civil proceedings against someone who engages in degrading or [...]

by Rex Wockner A recent ICM Research survey conducted for the United Kingdom's National Adoption Week revealed a high degree of resistance to adoption by gay couples. The poll of 1,007 people found that 40 [...]

by Rex Wockner The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence has paid $6.2 million to people who were kicked out of the armed forces before the gay ban was lifted in 2000, officials said Nov. 7. [...]

KALAMAZOO - The city commission of Kalamazoo took a giant step towards passing a civil rights ordinance that protects LGBT people from discrimination in housing employment and public accommodations. On Monday evening, the commission voted [...]

LANSING - Sylvia Guerrero clutches her styrofoam coffee cup and stares out with blue grey eyes and a steely determination forged during the emotional wreckage that happened six years ago. Guerrero was in Lansing at [...]

By Bob Roehr Delaying the start of HIV therapy increases the risk of death by 70 percent, according to an analysis of data from all 22 HIV cohort studies in the United States and Canada. [...]

by Rex Wockner Forty-four California legislators filed a brief with the state Supreme Court on Nov. 10 urging that Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment that voters passed to re-ban same-sex marriage, be overturned. Signers included [...]

by Rex Wockner Large grassroots protests against Proposition 8 have continued across California since Nov. 4, some drawing 10,000 or more participants in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. Smaller, but still sizable, protests [...]

by Rex Wockner Same-sex couples began marrying in Connecticut on Nov. 12 after final judgment was entered in a case decided by the state Supreme Court on Oct. 10. In a 4-3 ruling, the court [...]

By Lisa Keen Keen News Service The LGBT movement seems determined not to make the same mistakes with the administration of President-Elect Barack Obama that it made with President Bill Clinton back in 1992. There [...]

by Bob Roehr "We must actively address the growing HIV/AIDS pandemic in the United States," said Robert C. Gallo, the co-discoverer of the HIV virus, in a column in the Nov. 16 edition of the [...]

by Bob Roehr Patrick Sammon will be leaving Log Cabin Republican at the end of January after five years with the organization, the last half as its executive director. Earlier in the year he had [...]

by Rex Wockner California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told CNN on Nov. 9 that the state Supreme Court may well "undo" Proposition 8, the voter initiative that re-banned same-sex marriage Nov. 4 by amending the state [...]

by Rex Wockner An estimated 7,500 to 15,000 people marched through Manhattan Nov. 12 protesting California's Proposition 8, the voter-passed initiative that amended the state constitution Nov. 4 to end same-sex marriage, which had been [...]

LANSING - In a late night session Nov. 13, the Michigan House passed a package of two bills to expand the state's ethnic intimidation act. Under House Bills 6340 and 6341, bias motivated crimes would [...]

by Jessica Carreras She almost died of malaria. She posed as a nude model for an art class. She makes a mean plate of tapas. And yes, she has reenacted the infamous "pottery" scene from [...]

EAST LANSING - With a light wind and temperatures hoovering just above freezing, 150 people gathered at Michigan State University to join in an international protest of the passage of California's Proposition 8. "This event [...]

by Jessica Carreras On Saturday, over 1,500 LGBT and allied Michiganders braved the harsh winter weather to be part of a nationwide protest for gay rights that spanned every state and brought people in all [...]